I thought Brazil was working to end animal testing. Turns out that’s not exactly true.
Update on Brazil animal testing: Did you know that there is a controversial bill going through the Brazil Parliament right now to ban animal testing for cosmetics? Why controversial? Because as it’s currently worded, the bill will save virtually no animals from cosmetics cruelty at all. It’s a fake ban and that could set a very dangerous precedent for other countries to follow.
The bill proposes to ban animal tests for finished cosmetic products, but product testing is extremely rare. The vast majority of animals are used to test individual cosmetic ingredients, but the Bill fails to ban ingredients testing entirely. It also allows companies to circumvent a ban by testing on animals abroad and selling their cosmetics back in Brazil.
Humane Society International’s #BeCrueltyFree Brazil campaign is the only campaign on the ground in Brazil fighting to amend this Bill. It is vital that the Bill is amended by the Senate in order to ensure a watertight and full ban on animal tests for cosmetic products AND ingredients.
The highly respected Senator Eduardo Suplicy has just launched a video appeal to his fellow Senators urging them to accept our recommendations to fix the Bill. We believe that the European Union test ban of 2009 and sales ban of 2013 set the bar rightfully high for all other countries to emulate. The EU leads the way, followed by India, in introducing bans on cosmetics cruelty that protect animals and consumers alike. Anything short of this robust approach would be selling out on the thousands of rabbits. guinea pigs and other animals enduring painful eye, skin and oral poisoning tests for Brazil’s beauty industry.
#BeCrueltyFree is the leading global campaign for a worldwide end to animal testing of cosmetics, instrumental in achieving the historic bans in the EU and India. We know only too well that a law full of loopholes will be a disaster for animal welfare and, if passed unchanged, it could take many years to fix – and all the while animals in Brazil would continue to needlessly suffer in out-dated and unreliable toxicity tests for beauty products. It is also highly likely that other countries would seek to copy such a ‘lowest common denominator’ ban that promises everything but delivers nothing. HSI is determined to stop this dangerous precedent being set.
Be Cruelty-Free Brazil is part of the largest campaign in the world to end cosmetics animal testing. The Be Cruelty-Free Brazil campaign, led by Humane Society International and supported by ProAnima, ARCA Brasil and the Forum Nacional de Proteção e Defesa Animal, is leading the nationwide effort for a ban on cosmetics animal testing. Be Cruelty-Free campaigns also run in Australia, Canada, China, India, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Russia, Taiwan and the United States, where the campaign is led by The Humane Society of the United States.
This is so horrid.Why is everyone so against helping animals? Why propose bills with such big loopholes? Why are so many people so immune to their pain and suffering? I will never understand the way the human race has evolved. Makes my heart hurt.